Zboj

Zboj (Hungarian Harcos - until 1907 Zboj ) is a municipality in Okres Snina ( Prešovský kraj ) in the far east of Slovakia with 294 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the traditional Zemplín landscape .

geography

The landscape near Zboj, near the Polish border

The village is located in the eastern part of the Bukovské vrchy Mountains in the valley of the Zbojský creek . The municipal area of more than 50 km² borders on both Poland and the Ukraine and is still richly forested except for the valley itself; large parts are protected as part of the Poloniny National Park . A cave was discovered in 2003 near the Stinská nature reserve . The center of the village lies at an altitude of 354 m nm and is 41 kilometers away from Snina .

Neighboring municipalities are Cisna (PL, Wetlina) in the north, Nová Sedlica in the northeast, Sahorb , Sil and Strytschawa (all UA) in the southeast and south, Uličské Krivé in the southwest, Ruský Potok in the west and Runina in the northwest.

history

Church in Zboj

Grocery store and restaurant in the village center

The place was built around 1550 under Wallachian law and was first mentioned in writing in 1567 as Zboy . Until the last quarter of the 17th century, Zboj was part of the Drugeth 's domain of Humenné . In 1715 there were 28 abandoned and nine inhabited households in the village, and in 1720 there were two mills. In the 18th century the village was owned by the Csáky family and in the 19th century by the Schmidegg family . In 1828 there were 88 houses and 653 inhabitants, whose main sources of income were forestry and animal husbandry. At the beginning of the 20th century a saw worked in the village, there was also a narrow-gauge forest railway (until 1945), but due to great poverty there were several waves of emigration. At that time the Lobkovicz family owned most of the estates.

Until 1918, the place in Semplin County belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary and then came to Czechoslovakia or now Slovakia. As a result of the Slovak-Hungarian War , the village belonged again to Hungary from 1939 to 1944. Zboj suffered damage in both world wars, in World War II the village was liberated on October 18, 1944 after heavy fighting and reintegrated into Czechoslovakia.

After the end of the Second World War, many residents worked in Košice and in the Czech part of Czechoslovakia. The first regular bus line was set up in 1947; full electrification did not take place until 1960.

population

According to the 2011 census, 387 inhabitants lived in Zboj, of which 231 were Slovaks , 123 Russians , 11 Ukrainians , four Czechs , one German and one from Rome . 16 residents did not provide any information on ethnicity .

328 residents professed their support for the Orthodox Church, 18 residents for the Greek Catholic Church, nine residents for the Roman Catholic Church and three residents for the Jehovah's Witnesses; two residents professed a different denomination. Eight residents were non-denominational and 19 residents had no denomination.

Buildings and monuments

The old wooden church of St. Nicholas in the open-air museum in Bardejovské Kúpele

In Zboj there is an Orthodox church from 1966. The old, also Orthodox, wooden church of St. Nicholas from 1706 was faithfully rebuilt in 1966 in the open-air museum in Bardejovské Kúpele .

There is also a military cemetery from the First World War near Zboj.

Individual evidence

↑ Results of the 2011 census (Slovak)

Web links

Commons : Zboj - collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry on e-obce.sk (Slovak)

[1] Results of the 2011 census (Slovak)